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Related Projects (23)

Project TitlePrimary ResearcherProject #Funding Agency
Year 3 - Evaluation of the Complex Stand Simulation Model SORTIE-ND for Sub-Boreal Forests of Northern BC Dave Coates, PhD, Research Silviculturist, Ministry of Forests and Range, Smithers 2009-11 Forest Investment Account - Forest Science Program (Y10-3187)
LIDAR Dave Coates, PhD, Research Silviculturist, Ministry of Forests and Range, Smithers 2008-22 University of British Columbia
Secondary Structure Dave Coates, PhD, Research Silviculturist, Ministry of Forests and Range, Smithers 2008-20 Ministry of Forests and Range, Transfer Payment (01070/20/RE09Q0P022)
Testing SORTIE-ND Parameter Files Dave Coates, PhD, Research Silviculturist, Ministry of Forests and Range, Smithers 2008-18 Ministry of Forests and Range, Transfer Agreement (950/60/RE08Q0P077)
Year 2 - Evaluation of the Complex Stand Simulation Model SORTIE-ND for Sub-Boreal Forests of Northern BC Dave Coates, PhD, Research Silviculturist, Ministry of Forests and Range, Smithers 2008-11 Forest Investment Account - Forest Science Program (Y09-2187)
Year 2 - Development of a Spatially-Explicit Crown Allometry Model: Crown Shyness Dave Coates, PhD, Research Silviculturist, Ministry of Forests and Range, Smithers 2008-10 Forest Investment Account - Forest Science Program (Y09-2260)
Year 2 - The Effect of Site Type and Stand Structure on the Relationship Between Growth and Light Availability for Understory Trees (Juvenile Trees) Erica Close, Bulkley Valley Research Centre, Smithers 2008-09 Forest Investment Account - Forest Science Program (Y09-2022)
To Expand the Functionality of SORTIE-ND for use in Forest Management Dave Coates, PhD, Research Silviculturist, Ministry of Forests and Range, Smithers 2007-21 Ministry of Forests, Transfer Agreement (950/60/RERNI07Q0P056)
Year 1 - Development of a Spatially-explicit Crown Allometry Model: Crown Shyness Rasmus Astrup, Bulkley Valley Research Centre, Smithers 2007-20 Forest Investment Account - Forest Science Program (Y08-1260)
Year 1 - The Effect of Site Type and Stand Structure on the Relationship Between Growth and Light Availability for Understory Trees (Juvenile Trees) Rasmus Astrup, Bulkley Valley Research Centre, Smithers 2007-18 Forest Investment Account - Forest Science Program (Y08-1022)
Year 1 - Evaluation of the Complex Stand Simulation Model SORTIE-ND for Sub-Boreal Forests of Northern BC Dave Coates, PhD, Research Silviculturist, Ministry of Forests and Range, Smithers 2007-11 Forest Investment Account - Forest Science Program (Y08-1187)
Year 2 - Effect of Site Type on Competitive Interactions Among Trees in Complex-Structured Mixed Species Sub-boreal Forests Dave Coates, PhD, Research Silviculturist, Ministry of Forests and Range, Smithers 2007-06 Forest Investment Account - Forest Science Program (Y08-2254)
Structural Recruitment: Factors Affecting Survival and Growth of Residual Immature Trees after Clearcut Overstory Harvesting Ruth Lloyd, Mackenzie 2006-23
SORTIE for Use in Forest Management Dave Coates, PhD, Research Silviculturist, Ministry of Forests and Range, Smithers 2006-21 Ministry of Forests, Transfer Agreement
SORTIE as a Timber Analysis Tool Dave Coates, PhD, Research Silviculturist, Ministry of Forests and Range, Smithers 2006-20 Ministry of Forests, Transfer Agreement (950/60/RERNI06Q0P054)
Range of Natural Variation in Structural Attributes of Young Stands: Refining Current Indicators Ruth Lloyd, Mackenzie 2006-17 Forest Investment Account - Forest Science Program (Y07-1269)
Year 1 - Effect of Site Type on Competitive Interactions Among Trees in Complex-Structured Mixed Species Sub-boreal Forests Dave Coates, PhD, Research Silviculturist, Ministry of Forests and Range, Smithers 2006-06 Forest Investment Account - Forest Science Program (Y07-1254)
Date Creek Silviculture Remeasurement Dave Coates, PhD, Research Silviculturist, Ministry of Forests and Range, Smithers 2005-04 Ministry of Forests, Transfer Agreement
SORTIE/BC Programming and Training Dave Coates, PhD, Research Silviculturist, Ministry of Forests and Range, Smithers 2004-09 Ministry of Forests, Transfer Agreement
Forest Ecosystem Recovery Following Disturbance Allen Banner, Regional Ecologist, Ministry of Forests and Range, Smithers 2004-08 Ministry of Forests
Modelling Stand Dynamics in Southern Boreal Mixedwood Forests - SORTIE/BC Yves Bergeron, PhD, Université du Québec 2003-04 NSERC-UQAT-UQAM-Industrial Research Chair in Sustainable Forest Management
Growth Prediction of Canopy Trees in Complex Structured Mixed-Species Stands Dave Coates, PhD, Research Silviculturist, Ministry of Forests and Range, Smithers 2003-02 Forestry Innovation Investment Ltd. (R04-003)
Strategic Research Framework for Landscape Ecology in West-Central B.C. Liz Osborn, Wildland Nexus, Smithers 2002-01 BC Ministry of Sustainable Resource Management

Related Reports (12)

Publication DateProject No.TitleAuthorsReport Type
March 2009 2008-10 Development of a spatially explicit crown model Hilary Thorpe, Dave Coates, Rasmus Astrup a. FIA-FSP Technical Report
January 2010 2008-10 Competition and tree crowns: A neighborhood analysis of three boreal tree species Hilary Thorpe, Rasmus Astrup, Aaron Trowbridge, Dave Coates b. Journal Article
February 2008 2007-18 The Effect of Site Type and Light Availability on Height Increment of Individual Juvenile Trees Erica Close and Rasmus Astrup PowerPoint Presentation
April 2008 2007-06 Effect of Site Type on Competitive Interactions Among Trees in Complex-Structured Mixed Species Sub-boreal Forests - Executive Summary Dave Coates, Rasmus Astrup, Erica Close and Aaron Trowbridge a. FIA-FSP Executive Summary
2008 2007-06 The effects of soil resources on tree neighborhood dynamics in sub-boreal spruce forests of British Columbia K. David Coates, Rasmus Astrup, Erica Close and Aaron Trowbridge b. BVRC Poster
March 2008 2007-06 An Object-Oriented Approach to Semi-Automated Individual Tree Crown Extraction in High-Resolution Winter Low-Contrast Aerial Images Aaron Trowbridge and Rasmus Astrup c. Seminar Series Abstract
2006 2006-23 Structural Recruitment: Factors affecting survival and growth of residual immature trees after clearcut overstory harvesting Ruth Lloyd, Melissa Todd, and Jeffrey Meggs FIA-FSP Executive Summary
2007 2006-17 Range of Natural Variation in Structural Attributes of Young Stands:  Refining Current Indicators Ruth Lloyd, Karen Price, Phil Burton and Dave Daust FIA-FSP Report
2007 2006-06 Effect of site type on competitive interactions among trees in complex-structured mixed species sub-boreal forests Rasmus Astrup and Dave Coates FIA-FSP Executive Summary
2004-08 Long-term Recovery of Vegetation Communities after Harvesting in the Coastal Temperate Rainforests of Northern British Columbia Allen Banner and Philip LePage Abstract
2003 2003-02 Growth Prediction of Canopy Trees in Complex Structured Mixed-Species Stands Dave Coates FIA-FSP Completion Abstract
March 2003 2002-01 Strategic Research Framework for Landscape Ecology in West-Central BC Liz Osborn BVRC Report

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